For Depositors

Instruction for Depositing Data

JGSS Data Download System (JGSSDDS) disseminates Japanese General Social Survey (JGSS) and East Asian Social Survey (EASS) datasets which are administered by JGSS Research Center as well as various other survey data. JGSSDDS aims to make contributions for education and research in many fields, by providing opportunities for secondary use of survey data.

JGSS Research Center accepts datasets to be distributed via JGSSDDS. The Center curates regional survey data, experimental data and works on digitalization of non-electronic data files in addition to national survey data and cross-national survey data. Curated datasets include Asian Barometer Survey, Cross-national data on environment and lifestyle, experimental data in psychology, and business leaders survey in 1960’s and 1970’s.

Please contact us if you or your institution has any unreleased data. For more details about the JGSSDDS, please contact us at jgssdds@daishodai.ac.jp.

Conditions for data to be deposited in JGSSDDS

JGSS accepts data meeting the following conditions:

    ・Data for non-profit purposes (data for commercial purpose are not accepted)
    ・Data related on social science, including psychology
    ・Quantitative data (qualitative data such as interview records are not accepted)
    ・Data with clear definitions of sample population, survey methodology, and fieldwork dates
    ・Data guaranteed by proprietary rights and copy rights, having permission from relevant institutions
      for depositing
    ・Data with room for secondary analysis, having not yet been released for secondary use
    ・Data that does not include personal identifiers or that can be modified to remove any personal
      identifiers

JGSS Research Center offers supports to potential depositors in preparing their datasets for release. Please contact us if you or your institution has data that do not meet the above conditions.

About Data Release

Deposited datasets are released through JGSSDDS after getting consent form depositors. As for the data that have the risk of identification of research subjects, please contact us. We are ready to help you process your data into a form which does not allow identification of individual respondents.